'The Fashions'. Home toilet and toilet de chambre, April 1863 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'The Fashions'. Home toilet and toilet de chambre, April 1863 NPG D48003
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Louis Berlier, published by Samuel Orchart Beeton, published in The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, first published in Le Moniteur de la Mode, after Laure Noël (née Colin)
Described in the magazine:
First Figure. Home Toilet. - The jacket and skirt are made of green mohair or mousseline-de-laine; the former braided in black, and ornamented with a "fluffy" silk trimming or swansdown. The Spanish jacket has a little pleated basque, or tail, behind, and is cut away very much in front. The sleeve is small and open to the elbow, and is trimmed as far as the opening. A row of braiding and trimming is placed on the upper part of the sleeve,... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










